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Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The business of farming | Agriculture |
| The study of human culture, past and present | Anthropology |
| Areas where civilization began | Cultural Hearth |
| The system in which a culture is organized, controlled, and regulated | Government |
| Artificial waterway to allow the passage of boats or irrigation | Canals |
| System of writing used by the Mesopotamians | Cuneiform |
| One of the first organized system of laws created in Mesopotamia by s Babylonian king | Hammurabi's Code |
| A document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. The sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event. | Primary Source |
| People organizing into different groups, such as classes. Typically based on wealth, ancestry, or jobs. | Social Structure |
| The spread of culture | Cultural Diffusion |
| Exchange of goods | Trade |
| River valley in Mesopotamia | Tigris- Euphrates River Valley |
| River valley in ancient Egypt | Nile River Valley |
| A government that is lead by a religious leader | Theocracy |
| The people of Sumer, in Mesopotamia | Sumerians |
| One of the characteristics of a highly civilized society this is the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes. The Sumerian most important invention was the wheel. | Technology |
| System of writing in ancient Egypt | Hieroglyphics |
| Farming resulting in surplus production | Stable food supply |
| Way of life for a large group of people, such as a city or nation, which includes: government, religion, art, and architecture, technology, system of writing, social structure, and stable food supply | Civilization |
| A means of keeping records of communicating | System of writing |
| A system of beliefs | Religion |
| Interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. They may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them | Secondary Source |
| Human creations intended to express beauty and convey messages. It is one of the characteristics of a highly civilized society. | Art |
| A man- made system to supply water to crops and farm fields. | Irrigation |
| A region in extending from Iraq and Syria which included the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Greek for " between the rivers". | Mesopotamia |
| The leader of ancient Egypt that was viewed as both a king and a god | Pharaoh |
| The scientific of the changes that occur in people as they age from conception until death | Human development |
| An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something | Innovation |
| A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study, and experimentation | Invention |
| The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains | Archeology |
| A period of one hundred years | Century |
| A city that with it's surrounding territory forms an independent state | City- states |
| A native of ancient or modern Egypt, or a person of Egyptian descendant | Egyptians |
| A period of a thousand years, especially when calculated from the traditional date of the birth of Christ | Millennium |
| The period of time before written records | Prehistory |
| An ancient civilization that flourished in the Indus River Valley, from about 2500 to 1500 b.c. | River Valley Civilization |
| The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale | Commerce |
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